Enjoy these powerful keys to power evangelism as Jesse Shamp recalls his very first encounters with street ministry, and some of the very first breakthroughs in healing he encountered! These powerful keys that Jesse received during a season of hitting the streets with fire and glory will encourage you to step out in faith to pray for the sick in the marketplace!

Key #1 - How do I know who to pray for?

If the Lord leads you to pray for a specific individual, then pray for them; but do not be afraid to pray for everyone and anyone who will allow you. Don’t use ‘not feeling led’ as an excuse not to pray for a person. You see, Jesus died on the cross for everyone. That doesn’t mean that every person is saved, but it means that every person you pass on the street is important to God.

As you begin to step out in faith, the word of knowledge and the gift of prophecy will begin to flow and be activated.

Key #2 - Operating Out of Faith

Stepping out in faith is the key to seeing the miraculous manifest in your life. The Bible says that those that believe will lay hands on the sick and they will recover (Mark 16:20). If you are faithful in stepping out in faith and laying hands on the sick, you will see the sick healed. Not every person that I have prayed for to receive healing has been healed, but I praise God for those that I have prayed for that have received healing. When I first began stepping out in faith and praying for people, I prayed for at least 30 to 40 people before I saw anyone healed. I was standing at the entrance of a grocery store when I saw a man on his way out of the store. I felt like something had dropped into my spirit when I saw him, and I asked him, “You have pain in your knees, don’t you?” The young man stopped and said, “Yes, I do. I have it from playing football. Hey man... how did you know that?” I said, “Jesus told me.”

As I prayed for this man, I commanded the pain to come out of his knees, and the fire of God began to come on him. Then I asked him to check his knees to see if he felt any pain. To his amazement, all of the pain had left. The next day, I was at Wal-Mart doing street evangelism with two friends of mine. As I was walking past an aisle, I saw a woman standing over her cart with two other women. The Holy Spirit spoke to me about this woman and I then pointed my finger at her and exclaimed, “You have pain in your back, and you’ve had it for quite some time!” The woman replied, “Are you psychic or something?” I then told her that I was a Christian, and asked if I could pray for her. As I prayed for her, I said, “Right now, in the name of Jesus, back be healed.” I asked her to move her back; as she did, you could hear two loud popping sounds that came from her back. The woman was amazed that she was healed and all of the pain left her back right in that moment. The two women with her were completely shocked by her healing.

I began to notice how quickly I had stepped in to the gifts of the spirit and how quickly my gifts had activated and accelerated by simply stepping out in faith and believing Mark 16:20, “Those that believe will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.” This scripture that I had heard preached so many times had more meaning than ever before. This scripture had become a living reality for me.

Key #3 - The Word of Knowledge

A word of knowledge is a piece of information about a person, given by God. It can come as a thought, impression, or picture in your mind. Kenneth E. Hagin, father of the faith movement, once said, “The word of knowledge is a supernatural revelation by the holy ghost of certain facts in the mind of God.” Paul said that we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Many times, a word of knowledge can come as a thought in your mind. It is important to pay attention because God can be speaking without you even realizing it. You may feel pain in your body, and this can be a word of knowledge for someone. For example, one time my wife wasat a Christmas party with her parents. As she was sitting and eating with her mother and some friends, she began to feel a pain in her left knee. After a few minutes, she began touching her knee, and her mother took notice and asked,

​“What’s wrong?”“My knee is hurting; I don’t know why. It’s so weird,” she replied.After a few minutes, it began to dawn on her that it was possibly God speaking to her. She immediately began scanning the room to see who the word of knowledge could be for. Her eyes fell on an older lady who was sitting at a table across the room. She began to feel something in her spirit for this woman, so she asked her mother who the woman was. Her mother replied, “Her name is Banks. She has just been through a really bad surgery.”My wife got up to approach the lady, and when she questioned her, sure enough, she replied, “Yes, I had hip surgery. Now my hip feels fine, but my left leg and knee are in terrible pain.” As my wife looked at the lady’s left leg, she saw that it was noticeably more swollen than the other. She asked the woman if she could pray for her, and the woman said yes. She began commanding the pain to leave, and for the woman’s hip and legs to line up with the Word of God. As she prayed, the woman began moving her leg back and forth, saying that she hadn’t been able to do that before. The swelling also began to subside. A week later, she called my wife’s parents, saying that she had received a complete healing and was able to do everything she couldn’t do before. She even testified in church of her healing! Sometimes the Lord will speak to you, even if you aren’t listening. But if you make yourself available, the Lord will use you to impact people’s lives!

In another instance, I was in Puerto Rico. A friend of mine was to be preaching that night, and a few hours before the meeting, my friend said to me, “Let’s ask the Lord for words of knowledge.” I began to ask the Lord for a word of knowledge, and within a few minutes, I began to feel a pain in my right ankle. As my friend was preaching, he called out the word of knowledge for the right ankle. A man came up to receive healing, and my friend told me to pray for him. The man was completely healed and in tears over what God had done.

The word of knowledge is a powerful gift the Holy Spirit can use to flow through you for healing and deliverance!

Key #4 - Praying with Authority

Jesus was the first son of God. The Bible says that when Jesus came to the earth, he laid his deity aside (Phillippians 2:6-8). The power that Jesus had as God, he laid aside. Jesus never performed a single miracle until he was baptized by the HolySpirit. (Matthew 3:16)

After Jesus was baptized by the Holy Spirit, he received power. He went into the wilderness for forty days, led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus came back from the wilderness empowered by the Spirit of God. Acts 1:8 “You shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” The word power in Greek is dunamis, which literally means explosive power. Jesus was the first son of God that the world had ever truly seen.Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”

Jesus was anointed to preach the gospel, set the captives free, to open the blind eyes. The same spirit that Jesus received, we have received. Jesus was the first son of God, empowered by the Spirit for the miraculous. Jesus then went into a Jewish synagogue where he began to teach, and a man with an unclean devil cried out with a loud voice. He cast the devil out and said, “Hold your peace and come out of him!”

Luke 4:36 “What a word is this! For with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.”

Jesus operated out of authority and power. We have been given the same power and authority that Jesus operated in. The Bible calls us sons and daughters of God. You are just as much a son or daughter of God as Jesus was.

​Matthew 16:19 “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Keys are for kings. They represent authority. The Bible calls Jesus the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. We as sons and daughters of God are kings on the earth. We have been given authority to release the kingdom of God on the earth, to bind sickness, disease, and oppression. We are called to take dominion. Adam had dominion over the earth; when he fell in sin, he lost authority. Jesus came as the second Adam to restore dominion and authority to the church.

Colossians 2:15 “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show ofthem openly, triumphing over them in it.”

At the cross, Jesus spoiled principalities and powers, stripping them of the authority that they had. After Jesus was resurrected, he appeared before his disciples and said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and earth.” Mattew 28:18

The word power in Greek, Exousia, means authority. Jesus restored power andauthority to the church. It’s up to us what we do with it.

Jesus prayed with authoritative commands: be healed, pick up your bed and walk, etc. When we pray for the sick, we must pray with authority. Lay hands on the person, pray, and then have them check it out. When you are operating out of your authority, many times you will not feel any goosebumps or lightning bolts. I was attending a school called Kingdom Life Institute and there was a woman who came to visit the school. The overseer of the school brought this woman before the students, and we began to prophesy over her. She said she was 90% blind in her right eye. The overseer of the school asked me to pray for her. This was an ordinary day, like any other, in which I didn’t feel any extraordinary power or goosebumps. I laid hands on her by faith, and commanded her eye to open in the name of Jesus. I felt absolutely nothing. I asked her to open up her eye and tell me what she could see. She said that she could see light and movement, more than she could before. So I laid hands on her again, and prayed. This time, she said that she could see 75% better than she could before. I laid hands on her a third time, and spoke a simple command for her eye to open. After I prayed, her eye opened to 100% vision. The woman was ecstatic, claiming that she could see people’s faces when she couldn’t previously.

Sometimes when I pray for people, I feel the fire of God coming out of my hands.I’m sure that there were times when Jesus felt the same thing. The Bible talks about how Jesus felt virtuous power leave him when he prayed for the woman with the issue of blood. He said, “Who touched me?” There are times when you can feel the healing virtue coming out of you. There are times when you pray and don’t feel anything. Faith is never about what you feel. I’m sure there were times when Jesus didn’t feel the power of God either when he was speaking things by faith. I was preaching a meeting and a young boy came up to me for prayer. He was unable to walk up stairs, run, or play sports without pain. In fact, his mother wouldn’t even let him play sports. As I prayed for the young boy’s knee, I commanded his knee to be healed. I felt no power, but I asked the boy to do something that he couldn’t do before. He shouted, “There is no pain!” He said that he felt fire in his knees when I prayed for him. Three weeks later, I met the boy again. This time he had on a baseball jersey, and was playing sports without any pain.

I believe that I see just as many people healed with a word of knowledge as without.

Authority is about speaking commands.

In Matthew Chapter 8, a Roman soldier approached Jesus and asked for his paralyzed servant to be healed. When Jesus stated that he would go to the man’s home and pray for the servant, the man stopped him, saying, “I’m not worthy that you should come under my roof, but speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.” Jesus was amazed by the man’s faith because he recognized Jesus’ authority. Jesus spoke that the servant was healed, and the servant was healed within the hour.​This is a biblical example of a word spoken with authority.

Key #5 - Love is the Greatest

The central heart of the Gospel is Love. God loved people so much that he sent his son to shed his blood for everyone that would accept him. We are called to love people into the kingdom. The Bible says that it is the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance. When people experience the power of God through the supernatural, it draws them into the Kingdom. When someone experiences a healing in their body, it does not take much convincing for them to be born again. They will readily accept Christ. God is a god of love and compassion, and he desires that everyone would be healed and set free. These are manifestations of God’s love.

Jesus often healed out of compassion; he looked into people’s souls and saw their needs. Heidi Baker once said, “It’s not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.” The sole purpose of ministry is love. It isn’t about arguing or condemning the lost, it’s about loving them into the Kingdom. God will manifest his Spirit through you, and they will have an encounter with the love of God.

I was on my way into a mall once when the Lord spoke to me and told me to speak to a woman nearby. I approached her and said, “I felt led to come and speak to you.” I could tell that the woman was under a New Age spirit. I said, “I have a really cool gift. If you will hold your hand out, you will feel a presence come on your hand.” Everyone around her laughed at me, but she held out her hand. The power of God began to hit her. She said that the hairs on her neck were standing up. Then I said, “Jesus loves you so much. He wants you to give your life to him.” She then said, “I don’t believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven.”

It isn’t always about getting the person to pray the prayer right then, but sometimes you are sowing a seed of hope and destiny into their life. I believe that one day that girl will confess Jesus as Lord.

Key #6 - The Spirit of Prophecy

One prophetic word about someone can change their life and destiny in God. The Lord may speak to you about a person’s past, present, or future. The main purpose of the Spirit of Prophecy is to comfort, exhort, and encourage. Be open for the Spirit to speak to you and be willing to make mistakes.

Once I was in a convenient store evangelizing, when three guys came up to me and started talking to me. I didn’t know them, and they didn’t know that I was there evangelizing. The Lord spoke to me and told me that the man that I was speaking to had an anointing for music. When I asked him if he did rap music, he said that he used to rap in churches, but that he wasn’t walking right with the Lord. I had the opportunity to pray for him and bless him. The three men were touched by this encounter, and I had the opportunity to pray for each of them. You never know where someone may be in life or in their walk with the Lord. The Lord will always speak to people out of a spirit of love, not condemning them of their sin, but calling them into relationship with Him. You never know when the Lord may speak to you about someone. Once again, it goes back to love. The spirit of prophecy comforts, encourages, and exhorts. It is not our job to convict people of their sin; the Holy Spirit will do that. But it is our job to see people the way that God sees people, and show them the Father’s heart by bringing them His Word concerning them and their destiny.The Bible says that Daniel was an interpreter of dreams. I was in a convenient store one time and I asked two young men in the store if they had ever had a recurring dream or a dream that stuck out to them. One of the young men said that he had a dream that he was in chains and in bondage to giants that were controlling his life. The Lord gave me the interpretation of the dream; I knew that the young man wasn’t saved. I prayed for him and he said he felt like something was wrapping itself around him. I told him that it was the power of God and I led him through the prayer of salvation. The young man’s friend also gave his life to the Lord. There are many different ways that we can reach the lost. I don’t believe that there is any precise formula for evangelism; the Lord will have you minister to people in different ways. Just be open, be led, and be willing to hear the voice of the Lord. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; you can never go wrong with loving people.

Key #7 - Supernatural Boldness

​When I first started approaching strangers on the street, in the mall, in the marketplace, I felt a bit uncomfortable. But I was determined to step out of my comfort zone. Some of us are naturally shy when it comes to approaching people. Peter was not a bold person, but Peter received boldness on the day of Pentecost. There is a boldness that God can give that is supernatural. I want to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone, and watch God meet you. And remember, if you don’t pray for the sick, the sick are not going to be healed.

I hope that you’ve been richly blessed by this e-course. I pray for a specialimpartation of power, miracles, and boldness to come on your life. Remember, Jesussaid that the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few. The harvest is always ripe;all we have to do is reap it. Don’t leave it to someone else to do; if you don’t go,who will? I want to leave you with this prayer.

Father God,

I pray for a supernatural boldness to come onto every reader, that they would be bold toreach the lost. I pray for their gifts to be activated in the spirit, that the spirit of prophecyand the gift of healing would be increased in their life. I ask that You would give to them agift of compassion and love that flows straight from the Father’s heart. I pray and impartto them now the fire of God that brings boldness and power.